METEOR Program
METEOR Program
Program RunsSeptember 1 – December 31, 2024
METEOR Guidelines
Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents (green card holders) or DACA recipients and meet one or more of the following criteria:
- Being of a gender or orientation identity historically underrepresented in computer science and artificial intelligence, including women, trans of any gender, or non-binary.
- Participating in a fellowship or academic support program vetted by MIT (CSAIL will verify an applicant’s status while pursuing a doctoral degree at a U.S. institution)
- Being a first-generation college students who was the first in their familily to graduate from a four-year college or university
- Having experiences overcoming significant challenges in their path toward graduate school. Examples include but are not limited to:
• Managing a disability
• Veteran status
• Single parent
• Holding DACA status
• Financial hardship as a result of family economic circumstances
The METEOR Program encourages applicants from backgrounds underrepresented in science and engineering, including applicants who identify as African American/Black; Hispanic/Latinx; Native American or Alaska Native; and Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islanders.
All applicants who meet the eligibility requirements will be considered equitably, regardless of race or ethnicity.
Key Dates
- Program runs: September 1 – December 31, 2024
Program Benefits & Details
• Each post-doc selected will be awarded a 1 year funded appointment (renewable for a 2nd year if there is interest) and receive research training, mentoring, and guidance from faculty researchers at MIT CSAIL.
• Each post-doc will have an opportunity to engage with industry sponsors through various events at CSAIL including a METEOR dinner with all METEOR post-docs, faculty and sponsors. All METOR post-docs will be expected to give a tech talk for METEOR sponsors on their research project or research domain.
• All METEOR post-docs will have the opportunity to explore research careers in academia as well as industry. Over the course of the academic year, each sponsor is invited to come to the CSAIL to host a ‘lunch and learn’ led by someone at the company, who has a PhD and is actively engaged in research, who will discuss career paths, challenges/rewards of working in industry.
Application Requirements
- Research summary (past research)
- CV
- Letters of recommendation (1-2)
- Representative publications (1-3)
- Area of interest (applicants may indicate the MIT CSAIL PI they are interested in working with, but this is not required)
- Candidates may be asked to give a 30 minute virtual talk about their past research
Questions?
For more information on parental leave and benefits, please review the MIT Family Leave policies. More information about the program is available by viewing frequently asked questions. You are also welcome to contact us.
You may also be interested in the MIT School of Engineering Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Engineering Excellence.
The founding sponsors of the METEOR fellowship program include Accenture, Google and JPMorgan Chase.
